Career
On 5 April 2003, she was elected to the Parliament of Hesse. She was reelected to Parliament in the Hesse state election, 2008. On 3 November 2008, however, she declared, together with fellow Social Democratic Party of Germany MPs Carmen Everts, Jürgen Walter and Dagmar Metzger, that she would not support Andrea Ypsilanti as Prime Minister of Hesse, in a planned election.
The Social Democratic Party of Germany party had, before the election, vowed not under any circumstances to cooperate with Die Linke.
